Chapter 55
"What’s wrong with you?"
Joyce was eager to talk to Jiang Yunu, but when the words came to his lips, he took a different approach.
Jiang Yunu blinked: "Hmm?"
Joyson looked concerned and cautious. He raised his hand and pointed at her left arm. "Is your arm uncomfortable? I saw you touching it several times after coming out of the computer classroom."
Jiang Yunu paused.
Then she realized that her right hand was resting on her left arm, and her palm unconsciously covered the area from her shoulder to her upper arm.
A cool night breeze blew over at the perfect time. Jiang Yunu put down her hand and said, "It's okay."
It was already 11:40 pm Engel time. Jiang Yunu had finished his evening computer training and was walking on the campus road back to the dormitory area with Qiao Yisen.
Joyson also had a lot to say tonight, and many interesting gaming stories he wanted to share with Jiang Yunuo, but before he opened his mouth, he noticed that Jiang Yunuo couldn't help but raise his hand to touch his arm every once in a while, which instantly triggered his "motherly" spirit and made him put everything about the game aside.
"Are you really okay?" Joyson looked suspicious, obviously not believing the answer given by Jiang Yunu.
Jiang Yunu said, "Really."
Jiang Yunu was indeed not injured—not injured in the real world.
However, the moment she exited the holographic game, she might have looked a little disheveled in the game.
In order to obtain the elemental crystal core from the stone giant with fire elemental attributes, Jiang Yunu, who lacked long-range attack means, could only fight in close combat. The only effective attack method she could use in close combat with the stone giant was to "fly a kite" with the opponent first, then dance a "close dance" around the opponent and keep attacking him.
Facing the stone giant's highly defensive body, the spatula couldn't scoop up the crystal core area as easily as it had scooped up the elemental beasts before. It required repeated attacks and accumulated damage.
This means that each round of Jiang Yunu's "close dance" has to be quite long.
It also means that she will be splashed by those splattering magma sparks for a longer time.
As Jiang Yunu attacked the last fire elemental of the night, she was piling damage onto its left shoulder, her spatula practically sending sparks flying—and sparks actually rained down from the stone giant's shoulder. But midway through her desperate attack, the translucent pop-up window that had become her gaming nightmare appeared again. The second countdown started at "300" again, a cruel reminder to Jiang Yunu that her time on the machine was almost up.
Jiang Yunu was eager to kill the monster and didn't want to let go of any crystal core that was right in front of her. She felt a little numb when she saw the pop-up window, and she also felt a sense of urgency, which made her simply give up her original strategy of winning by playing it safe - she began to stop avoiding the stone giant's attacks.
By taking on the opponent's two attacks head-on, Jiang Yunu gained two more opportunities to attack.
Jiang Yunu got the last fire element crystal core of the night as he wished, and he did not miss the opportunity.
...The price is that the stone giant's stone fist really hurts when it hits people.
In addition to the dull pain from being hit by a heavy object, as if even his internal organs were shaking, what made Jiang Yunu feel even more distinct was the feeling of the magma on the opponent's body rolling down the stone fist onto his own body.
The magma was boiling hot and rolled down along the stone giant's fist that landed on her shoulder. The contact point expanded from a point to a surface in an instant. The scorching magma instantly covered half of Jiang Yunu's body like a high-temperature syrup of a special color, almost covering her from shoulders to arms to side ribs.
hot.
The heat reminded Jiang Yunu of the time when he encountered a "meteor storm" on an isolated island, and the feeling of being burned by the high-temperature energy light falling from the sky.
The burning sensation was constant, like wrapping the skin in a ball of heat, like burying a sweet potato or potato in a pile of dirt, then constantly roasting and cooking it. On the surface, however, it looked relatively bland, and at first glance, it was impossible to tell what form the object underneath had taken.
Jiang Yunu was thinking at the time: It’s really hot.
At the same time, her brain nerves seemed to have temporarily cut off the interference of pain on her limbs' movements.
She could clearly feel the burning and pain, but she continued to swing the spatula decisively, facing the scorching heat source that she should have instinctively avoided, and stuck the edge of the spatula firmly next to the stone giant's elemental crystal core - and then pried the red crystal core in one fell swoop.
After obtaining the fire element crystal core, Jiang Yunu, who was still covered in magma, was automatically ejected from the game by the system.
It was not until she returned to reality, knowing that her body was no longer covered by any hot objects, and Jiang Yunu and Qiao Yisen left the computer classroom side by side, that her "nerve-body" signal channel, which had been deliberately blocked before, seemed to be cleared again.
The nerves still retain the feeling of high heat and burning pain, and the limbs that react to the pain slowly touch the injured area unconsciously.
Jiang Yunu slightly moved her shoulders, which were intact in reality, and met Qiao Yisen's still suspicious gaze, saying, "I'm really fine."
The red-haired boy was still worried, so he took action himself and carefully pressed back and forth on the place where Jiang Yunu had been touching for a long time.
"I was worried you might have hit something in the simulator," Joyson said as he pressed, frowning. "Does it hurt here? ...How about here?"
Jiang Yunu let him press it, and he also saw a little bit of the other party's future style from Joeyson's actions.
"You're worthy of being a water type," Jiang Yunu praised. "Looking at you now, I can already see that you'll become a great healer in the future, grabbing people to see patients everywhere in the team."
After confirming that she was fine, Joyson let her go unhappily and patted her on the back. "Then you'll definitely become the most troublesome superpowered warrior in the team."
Jiang Yunu blinked: "Can't I be the most powerful one?"
Joyson was biased towards Jiang Yunu, and this was no exception when he felt that Jiang Yunu would be a cause of worry in the future.
So he first said, "Yes."
Jiang Yunu immediately showed a satisfied smile.
But Joyson continued the next second: "You are the most powerful, but also the most worrying. I don't think the two are contradictory at all."
Jiang Yunu pretended to cough and lowered his head as if to reflect on himself, but the reflection time did not exceed three seconds at all.
"There's nothing I can do." Jiang Yunu looked up and said, "I can only ask my future therapists to be more tolerant. I believe they will all be as gentle and loving as you."
Joyson couldn't help it. No matter how good-natured the future therapist was, he couldn't help but roll his eyes and slap Jiang Yunu lightly on the back of the head after hearing this.
This kind of jokes and imagining of the future simply diverted the original topic.
When Joyceen was about to reach the dormitory area, he asked Jiang Yunuo again why she had pressed her shoulders before. Jiang Yunuo did not intend to reveal her life on the isolated island to anyone. It was a part that she could not even explain to Joyceen and Aunt Daisy.
Jiang Yunu said half-seriously, "I've been swinging elemental beasts in the game for so long that even after getting off the machine, my arms still feel sore."
Joyson believed this answer.
The red-haired boy advised Jiang Yunu: "Even though it's a game, don't try too hard when fighting monsters in it."
Jiang Yunu felt that this was not her problem - how could she not fight to her heart's content in a game centered around combat?
The dormitory area is right in front of us. The boys' dormitory and the girls' dormitory are at a fork in the road, turning left and right respectively.
Jiang Yunu stopped at the fork in the road and asked, "By the way, you also entered the Novice Trial Battlefield today, right? What did you kill with your first elemental beast?"
Because he felt that this game was very random, Jiang Yunu had only told Joeysen that his first elemental beast would most likely be a water beast, but he did not insist that he would encounter a "crocodile".
Fortunately, she didn't insist.
Joyson's eyes lit up at the question and he answered with great interest, "It's a slime! It's a water-type, blue, and it was bouncing around on the ground when it appeared."
Thinking of his first primary elemental beast, Joyson seemed to be a little attracted by it.
He pressed his chest and said reluctantly, "It looked kind of cute. When it first appeared, I didn't want to fight it... until it attacked me first."
Jiang Yunu: "..."
Joyson asked, "Do you think it's a bit embarrassing that I think slimes are cute?"
Jiang Yunu immediately gave a negative answer: "No, I think slimes are cute too."
so cute.
It’s completely different from the “crocodile” she met!
After saying goodbye to Joyson, Jiang Yunu returned to Building 10 of the girls' dormitory. With mixed feelings, she tiptoed back to her room.
She really began to suspect that the game system was secretly targeting her.
Otherwise, why do her games seem like two different games from others?
But Jiang Yunu couldn't understand why a game open to everyone in the universe would target her for no reason? Could it be that they had discovered she was exceptionally gifted in some area and had increased the difficulty just for her, testing and training her?
While Jiang Yunu was washing up, he allowed himself to make some blind guesses without any evidence.
By the time he finished washing up, it was already very late. Jiang Yunu didn't sit at the desk, but went straight to the bed, sat cross-legged on the bed, pulled out the terminal screen, and began to review his computer performance this week.
Of course, the original "32" target was not achieved.
But Jiang Yunu killed a total of 8 water elemental beasts on Saturday, and unlocked and killed a total of 8 wind elemental beasts on Saturday and Sunday.
Today she successfully unlocked the fire elemental beast, performed two "close dances" with the stone giant, and obtained two red crystal cores in her backpack.
Judging from the Novice Trial goal of "collecting 8 crystal cores of each of the four elements," Jiang Yunu's overall progress is almost over. As long as she defeats the remaining 6 stone giants and collects all 8 fire element crystal cores, she should be able to end the Novice Trial and activate the interactive function she had heard about before from her seniors.
"But that will have to wait until the week after next..."
After Jiang Yunu finished reviewing his battle records, he pushed the screen slightly to the side, sat on the bed and stretched out his body.
Next week is the day to go back to Chat to see Aunt Daisy and have a good meal on the run-down street.
While loving to fight, you still have to live a good life and cherish the time when there is a place waiting for you to go back to for dinner.
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